Québec and Montreal

I think I am not keeping up to posting regular entries here. I guess I have traveled a lot during past one and half month and that seem to be contributing to less blog posts. But never mind, that should be arrite as there are not too many(read any) readers for my posts as of now :).

So, I want to write about my trip to Québec City and Montreal. I like to spell Québec in french and am ignoring the spelling error given to me by the software :). Let me put some introduction about Québec first. Québec is a province in the eastern Canada. A person named Champlain found Québec City about 400 years ago and its called new France also. French is the basic language; so you are more then likely to be greeted with a Bon Jour if you are in any part of Québec. I was very happy as I was actually able to make use of whatever little French I know. As you go north in the province of Québec; french influence seems to be getting bigger and stronger and you can notice that by broken English usually spoken there. If you are in Québec City; you will feel a combination of culture of Europe and North America - mainly more of Europe and less of North America. Let me start with Québec City - its a beautiful city; probably the most beautiful place I have visited till now in whole of North America. The old city specifically is very pretty in its architecture and cultural richness. Luckily, when we reached Québec, it was the 400th anniversary celebration and there was a lot of festiveness including great food, great music including concerts and live shows. The Chatau Frontanac, the painted wall, the citadel, statue of Champlain, narrow streets of old Québec city, churches and what not. It was a wonderful expirience, a true holiday - simply fun. Coming to Montreal, the old Montreal was also very beautiful and rich in culture just like Québec city. Visiting the 1976 Olympic stadium was a once in a lifetime experience. I would certainly mention the bridge connecting Montreal to AuT 20 and AuT 15 highways - north to Québec city and south to New York state respectively, was the most scary bridge I have ever driven on :) and I have no clue why they have made it so scary :). I think enough about my trip and expirience- may be time to talk something else.

Coming to my favorite topic of movies, watched some real good movies off late. The Others, The Game and Lucky Number Slevin to name a few. I also watched two horror blend of movies lately - namely American Psycho and Haute Tension(french movie dubbed in English) - both are highly graphic. All the above movies had twist endings and the later two just rose so many questoins in my minding about their genre of film making and entertainment. Those are the kind of films that leave the viewer in thinking mode - the movies with open endings and left to people what they want to deduce. But I believe I dont like such movies with very very open endings; I dont find them entertaining enough. They leave me puzzled and I end up spending a couple of hours reading about them on imdb. But I was glad to know that director and script writer of american psycho felt that they felt the biggest failure of the movie was that it failed to convey the truth to the audience. As per them, it was not intended. Now that's honest and I admire them.

I guess thats about it for today as I conclude this post with pledge to enjoy rest of my weekend. Cheers !!.